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Category Archives: Sex
Why Is There Sexual Repression?
Sociologist Randall Collins writes: Social rules are embedded in tacit understandings as to when a rule is to be invoked. Freud would have called this unconscious; Durkheim called it pre-contractual solidarity. There are many persons and many situations where one … Continue reading
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Primal Screams: How the Sexual Revolution Created Identity Politics
Mary Eberstadt writes in this 2019 book: * Wolves live the way people do, in families made up of a mom, a dad, and their children. Sometimes an unrelated wolf can be adopted into a pack, or one of the … Continue reading
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Want to Hookup?: Sex Differences in Short‑term Mate Attraction Tactics
From Evolutionary Science: * While a great deal of psychological research has been conducted on sex-specific mate choice preferences, relatively little attention has been directed toward how heterosexual men and women solicit short-term sexual partners, and which acts are perceived … Continue reading
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Men & Women
Comments at Steve Sailer: * There are two basic realities that no amount of social conditioning are ever going to erase. 1) Most heterosexual women like confident, dominant men, even if they feel intense pressure not to say so and … Continue reading
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Is Nothing Sacred? Religion and Sex
From Psychology Today: For adults, their sexual strategies appear to determine their level of commitment to religion. People who are inclined toward monogamy choose to be religious, because traditional religions provide support for a family lifestyle, and discourage promiscuity. Promiscuity … Continue reading
Emasculated – The problem of men writing about sex
Luke Brown writes: When Philip Roth died in 2018 an era of unpalatable writing by men about men seemed to close. Roth, who often wrote about antagonistic relationships, was dogged by accusations of misogyny for his portrayals of women. Carmen … Continue reading
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Perversion: The Erotic Form Of Hatred
Here are some highlights from this 1986 book by Robert Stoller: First, perversion is the result of an essential interplay between hostility and sexual desire… Second, people with perversions feel (are made to feel) an unending sense of being dirty, … Continue reading
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Sexual Excitement: Dynamics of Erotic Life
Here are some highlights from this 1986 book: * My theory makes sexual excitement just one more example of what others have said for millennia: that humans are not a very loving species –especially when they make love. Too bad. … Continue reading
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Lovemaps: Sexual/Erotic Health and Pathology, Paraphilia, and Gender Transposition In Childhood, Adolescence and Maturity by John Money
* “Dr. John Money is the Duke of Dysfunction, a man who writes about “unspeakable” human sexual problems with such dignity and care that his case histories make me feel almost normal.” — John Waters, jacket endorsement for John Money, … Continue reading
Watching The English By Kate Fox
Here are some highlights: * ‘How’s the Englishness book going? What chapter are you working on?’ ‘The one about sex.’ ‘So, that’ll be twenty blank pages, then?’ THE KNEE-JERK HUMOUR RULE I’ve lost count of the number of times I … Continue reading